Language Arts Quotes

I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for a year. But having a big vocabulary and being good at Scrabble are not the same thing.

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it.

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.

If you're ever struggling for something to say, just take a noun and verbalize it. Using simple words in new and interesting ways will creativize your presence.

She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.

I majored in English with a specialization in creative writing along with Asian American Studies.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music of language always available to me.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

My dad was an English professor.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.